Garment-supporter



G. HAKE.

i GARMENT SUPPORTER.A

APPLICATION man lunfz, 1917.

1,319,703, Patented oct.. 28,1919

'UivrTEn sTATEs PATENT oEEioE.

GEORGE HA'KE, 0F ST, LOUIS, MISSOURI.

GARMENTSUPPOBTER.

Application filed .Tune 25,

To all whom t may concern Be it known thatv I, GEORGE Hann, a citizen of the United States or' america, a resident of the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Supporters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to a garment supporter andv has for its object the production of a simple, inexpensive and secure article or' this kind so constructed as to avoid possibility of the disconnection of a garment from the supporter, this object being attained by using a novel pressure member and an effective interlocking connection be tween a resilient clasp member and a clasp keeper slidably fitted to said resilient clasp member.

Figure I is a front elevation oit' my garment supporter.

Fig. II is an enlarged rontfelevation ot the supporter, the clasp keeper being partly 1n section.

Fig. III is an elevation of the clasp, partly in section, the keeper being shown in raised position.

y Fig. IV is a vertical section through the supporter as it appears when in service with a garment attached thereto.

Fig. V is a cross section through the clasp.

Fig. VI is an end elevation of the roll or button of my garment supporter.

In the drawings, A designates a suspension strap adapted to be secured to a supporting article of wearing apparel, Tor example, a corset, and B is a clasp carrier attached to the suspension strap A by suitable means, such as a loop C.

The clasp carrier B includes two flexible or pliable straps, l and 2, parallel with each other. The strap 2 terminates in a roll 3 formed by winding the strap upon itself and preserving the roll thus formed by eX tending stitches thereinto, or in any other suitable manner. Said strap 2 is preferably of cloth and is therefore readily rolled to produce the roll 3.

The strap 1 olf the clasp carrier B has attached to it a keeper 4, preferably of metal. This keeper is provided with a slot 5 for the reception of a loop at the end of the strap l, and said keeper has end run- Speeiilcation of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 28, 1919.

1917. Serial No. 176,766.

ners 6 which engage the resilient member of the clasp of my garment supporter.

D designates the resilient clasp member ci my garment supporter. This clasp member is of metal and is U-shaped in form, comprising a bottom horizontal ledge element 7 and arms 8 extending upwardly from said ledge element. The arms 8 are provided with shoulders or detents 9 which receive the runners 6 ot the keeper l, said runners being operable on said arms to seat beneath the shoulders 9 or to be disengaged `from said shoulders and move upwardly along the arms.

In the practical use of my garment sup porter, the garment to be attached to the supporter is secured to the clasp by placing a small portion of such garment in :trent of the roll 3 and passing said roll with the portion of the garment in lront of it through the resilient clasp member D, while the ledge element 7 and the keeper 4 are widely separated, as seen in Fig. III. At this time the runners 6 of the keeper are above the lower edges of the detent shoulders 9, and after the roll 3 and the portion of the garment to be clasped have been passed through the member D as mentioned, said member D is elevated while the keeper t is held from upward movement therewith, and as a result the runners 6 of the keeper become seated beneath the detent shoulders 9, as seen in Figs. I and II. IVhen this has been done the roll 3 occupies the position seen in Fig. IV, with the engaged portion of the garment extending almost completely around the roll and resting in part against the ledge element 7 of the resilient clasp member and partlyv against the keeper t above said ledge element. 1With the parts so connected, any pull exerted by the supporter and the garment in contrary directions tends to draw the roll 3 backwardly toward the space between the ledge element of the resilient clasp member and the keeper above this ledge element, and inasmuch as this space is smaller than said roll the latter cannot pass theretl'n'ough but acts to bind the portion et the garment around it tightly against the opposing portions of the clasp, thereby eii'ectually preventing separation ot the garmentl from the clasp of the garment supporter. When it is desired to detach the supporter from the garment it is only necessary to move the arms of the resilient clasp memberv D toward each other to a suliieient degree to permit the runners 6 of the keeper 4 to be unseated from beneath the shoulders 9 on said arms, after' Y 3 of my garment supporter is of a special merit for the reason that it provides a very simple and inexpensive button or retaining device,l comprising as it does merely a portion of the goods from which the strap 2 is formed, which may be readily produced by the simple expedient of a winding operation and the preservation of the roll thus formed. The roll 3 has the'further point of merit that it may be of cloth or other soft material, which, when engaged by the garand a U-shaped resilient elasp member hav-V ing its arms slidably fitted to said keeper, said clasp member being movable independently of said strap and havinga ledge element intermediate its arms toward which -said keeper is movable and the arms of the clasp member being provided with detents i for limiting the movement of the keeper in a direction away from said ledge element to confine said button between the ledge element and the keeper.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I hereunto alix my signature.

GEORGE HAKE.

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- Washington, D. G. 

